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Tales From Albian Knights - The Derranged Welcome everyone, I do hope you all had a great week. These back issues of ‘The Tales from Albian’ are drawing to a close, hopefully with a focus on Chaos Chosen for the last episodes. I might aim to break this down into some short stories maybe depending on how it goes down with you all, just drop via ideas and feedback below in the comments.  Full Army Overview Collage However, before we reach the finial instalment, I wanted to present a brief overview of the full tournament army above, which is a subset of the Albian Army, and then a closer look at the Chaos Knights unit below, which are in the photo above at the back. Knights at Warhammer World 2014   Command Close Up New Movement Tray Side View I do hope you like them. Obviously they have a real punch in game and are one of the best standard units going, and you can even upgrade them to Chosen. Other elements of cavalry are some light horse Light Marauder Horse. I actually wasn’...

Tales From Albian Monsters & Beasts - The Horrors Welcome everyone, I do hope you all had a great week.   This week we move onto Chaos Monsters and Beasts. The first to show you this week is the Shaggoth. Actually hard to see from my older photos but this is one of my best models the skin has come out really well, see second picture.   Shaggoth 2025 Photo   Most pleasing part of this model painting wise has to be how his Axe has come out:   Zoomed right in Next up is the Giant Beast Ghorgon which actually has its own rules other than a giant beast, I think I got the name of this one right, though I can’t remember. Also I know this isn’t an GW mini but again can’t think who the manufacturer is off the top of my head, though I do remember he is call the head collector.   Giant Ghorgon Next up is some converted Chaos Ogres, these are Games Workshop standard ogres with some weapon swaps and the same pink and purples colour scheme that is running thro...

Tales from Albian Chaos Wizards - Chaotic Demonic Immolation Welcome one and all, it’s that time again for another instalment from the archives of Tales from Albian, my fantasy world I created for my ‘Horde North of the Wall'. If you are following my blog, you are probably starting to figure out, I am not all there and a little away with the fairies, and you would be right in that assumption. Quite frankly it’s a much better place to be, than knocking around this world having to frantically tap on laptops that don’t work, and discuss the finer points of workplace etiquette with the great unwashed! After all we do take our lives into our own hands through simply walking down our local high street these days, so spending my time thinking about the horrors of a fantasy realm is much safer place to exist. So, to my next little trip down the rabbit hole takes us to Wizards, and in this instalment, I shall cover mainly the Chaos bunch I have painted to support my army. Alr...

Tales from Albian Chaos Chariots - Gregor the Crazed with the Unhinged, Insane & The Mad.   Well folks this is the first up-to-date instalment of the blog. Having now finished posting all my old content from other places, I have to actually to get down and write stuff, not without some trepidation I can tell you! I am not a writer by nature so this is me pushing myself out of my comfort zone for you all, so I would really appreciate any comments or feedback below, as it will guide me on future direction and content of this blog.     All four chariots Since leaving Twittersville I wasn't sure where to start, so after posting all my old stuff on this new blog I knew I needed to sit down and think about the direction in which to go.  The answer was easy really, start at the beginning for my painting journey.   Well, it all started, as I am sure it does for almost everyone…..in the 90s as a kid….I can remember very clearly buying my first ever Whi...

a Load of Old Toby Hello all, I hope this article on my little hobby corner finds you well. This is my first foray into the written article for the hobby so please be kind…. since 2020, throughout the Pandemic, I have been more conscious at work and in the hobby to look for opportunities to give back to the wider community. I wouldn’t say that I am very active within the community, I only have one online Twitter account, and I certainly don’t find as much time to interact or play games with others as I would like. In addtion to this I coming to the conclusion that all social media presence needs to be removed. For now I can be found only here: @freexerjin.bsky.social But I need to keep in contact, in some fashion with the great community of artists gamers, and imaginary creatures. So I have decided to start this blog, with a very unoriginal name. If anyone else is using it please do tell me. So where do I start?......Having been posting on the aformention social media tu...

King Richard I Lard Magazine 2023 - PartTwo Keeping it Simple My next dose of inspiration was reading about Richard I, marching his army through the desert at Arsuf in 1191. For this crusading army I obviously wanted to create the feel of marching through the Desert. But I was acutely aware that as with most deserts they can be plain sand. I could have just literally used sand and gone for the natural tone of light changes to make do, and there would be nothing wrong with that simple approach. But I wanted to give Richard and his army some real subtle elegance to his frame. In this instance I opted for trying to create small undulations in the land with the odd rock and tuft of grass to break up the flatness, while concentrating on letting inks do the majority of the painting for me. Coeur de lion For this style of base, I used household polly-filler to create small uneven surface over roughly 50% of the base. Then I superglued some small stones in place to break up the remaining fl...